Tag Archives: books I read in 2017

Here’s another book I read (well, re-read) during my Twelve Days of Crimmus, but have only gotten around to reviewing now– Jim Butcher’s Storm Front. Storm Front is the first novel in the Dresden Files, arguably the most popular and successful Urban Fantasy series going today. The premise is (initially) simple: Harry Dresden is the …

And we’re back to our regularly scheduled book reviews, as I catch up with stuff I put off while I was watching Christmas cartoons. Yay? The Honor of the Queen is the second Honor Harrington novel– I’ve read and reviewed the first and the third, so I figured I’d fill in that gap. I snagged …

For the whole dozen of you who read this blog regularly, you’ve probably figured out that I tend to read ‘genre’ stuff. I.e: books with spaceships and/or dragons on the cover. But sometimes, I like to change things up. And with that in mind, well … we’re certainly changing things up today. Y’see, I happened …

I love a good swashed buckle. Ruffs and rapiers, doublets and decolletage– I eat that kind of stuff up. Thing is, there aren’t a huge amount of books out there that scratch that particular itch. I mean, yeah, there’s Dumas and Hope and the other classics, or the work of modern authors like Arturo Perez …

So! October’s over, and now I can read something besides cheesy horror paperbacks. Stuff like science fiction paperbacks! But good ones! At least, in this particular case. See, a lot of the fun of this blog is digging up obscure and insane sci-fi & fantasy novels that have otherwise been forgotten by history. On the …

And we wrap up the 2017 Hallowread with, appropriately enough, Gary L. Holleman’s Howl-O-Ween, another random horror paperback Jeremy foisted on me. All and all, I’d say this has been my best October’s worth of horror books yet– between Grady Hendrix’s wonderful Paperbacks From Hell, and the sheer gonzo insanity of Panzer Spirit, this has …

I try to stay apolitical on this blog, but I figure it’s time to make what may (sadly) be a controversial statement to some corners of the internet. Fuck Nazis. The evils and failures of the Third Reich have been well documented by more talented folk than I, so I’m not going to play historian …

And for our next review, we go back to THE BOX, the big ol’ mystery box full of random genre paperbacks I nabbed almost a year ago. Ten bucks for twenty nine books comes out to a little over thirty cents a pop. So, uh, value there? In any case, one of the horror paperbacks …

Vampires! They’ve always been the go-to ‘sexy monsters,’ what, with the neck-biting and vaguely threatening ethnicity and all. Various writers have taken various takes on the ‘sexy vampire’ bit over the ages, though– The Lost Boys went punk rock (with saxaphones), Anne Rice opted for glam-rock fabulousness, and Stephanie Meyer showed us what happens when …

October! The season for pumpkin beers, inappropriately sexy costumes, and, of course, trashy horror novels. While I’ve got at least two non-horror book reviews lined up, I think I’m gonna put them on hold for now, because … well, again. October! Hallowread! Time for me to bust out an awkward portmanteau and dive right into …